Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow ol...d. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are ...necessary for the peace and security of the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,--1. Security to possessors;... 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel a sincere wish indeed to see our government brought back to it's republican principles, to see that kind of government firm...ly fixed, to which my whole life has been devoted. I hope we shall now see it so established, as that when I retire, it may be under full security that we are to continue free and happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know wha...t to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self.... All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction ... [ellipses in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through prop...erty that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic i...s a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists ... and all enemies of my Government and the ...Republic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »